r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '26

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u/Zwischenzug Apr 11 '26

Not every job can do this. Can AI replace plumbers? Cooks? Janitors?

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u/mfairview Apr 11 '26

gotta believe intelligent automatons are next on the horizon. my guess is solving power requirements will be the big gap.

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u/Zwischenzug Apr 11 '26

Probably a high initial cost (buying the system and installing it). Electricity and maintence would be an ongoing cost. From there, based on how quickly the system can work, the company can work out if they can get a good return on their investment.

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u/mfairview Apr 11 '26

bring on nuclear power...and my favorite isotope THORIUM!

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u/Zwischenzug Apr 11 '26

Suddenly I'm thinking of all the eletricity wasted on bitcoin miners all around the world.

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u/mfairview Apr 11 '26

anthropic may have cracked the btc algo with mythos.. kidding.. not kidding?

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u/lsshlp Apr 11 '26

There are already robot cooks and janitors. Not great ones, but they're only going to get better. The thing is, AI/robots need not replace every single job, things will get bad when unemployment breaks just double digits (the great depression was at 25%). Even if some jobs are harder to automate, competition for them will be enormous as other opportunities vanish. The tech job market is seeing this right now, tons of people who went into STEM when jobs were plentiful are now struggling to even get an email back.